Here's the fifth mission...Keep a food journal.
Here's what you'll need to do:
*During the next week, I want you to write down everything you eat for 48 hours. The 48 hours don't have to be consecutive. You can do 24 hours, then do 24 hours a few days later. It's up to you.
*Here are the things you'll need to write down:
**What time it is
**What you eat (give exact measurements...you can't say a handful of M&Ms or a spoonful of this and that...Measure!
**Everytime you eat, rate how hungry you are on a scale of 1 to 5...1 meaning not hungry and 5 meaning starving and tummy rumbling
**Write down what kind of mood you're in (happy, sad, mad, stressed out, etc)
**You have to reply to this thread and tell us what you've been eating. Don't post each time you eat...just reply and say, "Here's what I ate on Friday", for example
I'm hoping that keeping a food journal will help you identify time of the day and events that might be jeopardizing your efforts to lose weight.
When I first joined Weight Watchers, keeping a food journal really helped me. I was surprised by how often I had been eating without thinking about it before I started WW. I've slacked off on keeping track of my food intake, and it has made a big negative difference when I weigh- in. I think the food journal also helped me refrain from snacking on unhealthy stuff because I didn't want to write down 5 mini Snickers bars or go to the trouble of figuring out how many points were in one or two bites of food.
Good luck!
Remember....If you bite it, write it!
Here's what you'll need to do:
*During the next week, I want you to write down everything you eat for 48 hours. The 48 hours don't have to be consecutive. You can do 24 hours, then do 24 hours a few days later. It's up to you.
*Here are the things you'll need to write down:
**What time it is
**What you eat (give exact measurements...you can't say a handful of M&Ms or a spoonful of this and that...Measure!
**Everytime you eat, rate how hungry you are on a scale of 1 to 5...1 meaning not hungry and 5 meaning starving and tummy rumbling
**Write down what kind of mood you're in (happy, sad, mad, stressed out, etc)
**You have to reply to this thread and tell us what you've been eating. Don't post each time you eat...just reply and say, "Here's what I ate on Friday", for example
I'm hoping that keeping a food journal will help you identify time of the day and events that might be jeopardizing your efforts to lose weight.
When I first joined Weight Watchers, keeping a food journal really helped me. I was surprised by how often I had been eating without thinking about it before I started WW. I've slacked off on keeping track of my food intake, and it has made a big negative difference when I weigh- in. I think the food journal also helped me refrain from snacking on unhealthy stuff because I didn't want to write down 5 mini Snickers bars or go to the trouble of figuring out how many points were in one or two bites of food.
Good luck!
Remember....If you bite it, write it!
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